Avrahm Yarmolinsky (January 13, 1890 – September 28, 1975) was an author, translator, and the husband of

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. He attended the

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in Switzerland before emigrating to USA in 1913. He received a bachelor's degree from

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in 1916 and his doctorate from

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in 1921. He married Babette Deutsch on April 28, 1921. Yarmolinsky was head of the Slavonic Division of the

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from 1918 to 1955.

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Yarmolinsky authored, edited, and translated many works throughout his life. ;Author * ''Dostoievksy: A Study in His Ideology'' (

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, 1921) * ''Turgenev: The Man, His Art and His Age'' (

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, 1926) * ''The Jews and Other Minor Nationalities under the Soviets'' (

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, 1928) * ''Picturesque United States of America'' (Rudge, 1930) * ''Russian Literature'' (

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, 1931) * ''Dostoevsky: A Life'' ( Harcourt, 1934). Later expanded and published as ''Dostoevsky: His Life and Art'' (Criterion, 1957) * ''Early Polish Americana: A Bibliographical Study'' (

, 1937) * ''Russian Americana: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries'' (New York Public Library, 1943) * '' Road to Revolution: A Century of Russian Radicalism''Online archives
/ref> ( Cassell, 1957) * ''Literature under Communism: The Literary Policy of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from the end of World War II to the Death of Stalin'' (Russian and East European Institute,

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, 1960) * ''A Russian's American Dream: A Memoir on William Frey'' (

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, 1965) * ''The Russian Literary Imagination'' (

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, 1969) * ''Dostoevsky: Works and Days'' (Funk & Wagnalls, 1971) ;Editor * ''The Works of Alexander Pushkin'' (

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, 1936) * ''A Treasury of Great Russian Short Stories: Pushkin to Gorky'' (Macmillan, 1944) * ''The Unknown Chekhov: Stories and Other Writings Hitherto Untranslated'' (Noonday, 1954) * ''Soviet Short Stories'' ( Doubleday Anchor, 1960) * ''Russians, Then and Now: A Selection of Russian Writing from the Seventeenth Century to Our Own Day'' (Macmillan, 1963) * (with

) ''More Tales of Faraway Folk'' (

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, 1963) * ''The Letters of Anton Chekhov'' (Viking, 1973) * (with

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) ''The Collected Short Stories of Maxim Gorky'' (Citadel Press, 1988) ;Editor and translator * (with Deutsch) ''Modern Russian Poetry'' (Harcourt, 1921). Edited the first revision of Constance Garnett's 1912 translation of The Brothers Karamazov (1933), Revised and published as ''A Treasury of Russian Verse'' (Macmillan, 1949), ''An Anthology of Russian Verse, 1816-1960'' (Doubleday Anchor, 1962), and ''Two Centuries of Russian Verse: An Anthology from Lomonosov to Voznesensky'' (Random House, 1966). * (with Deutsch) ''Contemporary German Poetry: An Anthology'' (Harcourt, 1923) * ''The Portable Chekhov'' (

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, 1947)

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